The star has 2 JL amps, 2 MC tower speakers and the usual 6 cabin speakers and sub. I turned the volume up to '33' (full blast) and the it was not loud at all. Turning the volume donw to half, I could barly here anything. This is inside the maint shop. When the radio was playing full blast, all speakers were working and the sound was very clear and had great fidelity. My question is it possible the amps may be turn way down? Or is there something else I sould look at. At this volume, there would be no way of hearing the stereo over the wind/water at full blast.

Check to see if the amps are actually powered on. You may have a breaker tripped or a ground wire disconnected. If it played correctly before it's highly unlikely the amps magically turned themselves down. More likely they not connected correctly or the circuit has be tripped.

one of my mods this winter is going to be to power the sub separately from the 6 channel amp thats in there - so i'll be giving more power to the sub and 4 of the interior speakers by putting them on their own channels

one of my mods this winter is going to be to power the sub separately from the 6 channel amp thats in there - so i'll be giving more power to the sub and 4 of the interior speakers by putting them on their own channels

Are you planning on installing an additional amp for the sub? or were you just re-assigning what amp powers what?

Hey WillyT... i just got a xstar and the tuning is all out of wack. i thought the 6ch was for the interior and the tower, and the other was for the sub? maybe this was my problem haha. So my sub is WAY down, and the interiors are pushing too much bid-bass.. how do you have your knobs tuned? excited to go play around with it now